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Favorite Road Trip Films

Movie list created by kathy

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5.8

6.2

Bonneville (2006)

Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Tom Skerritt, Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk and Tom Wopat

Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden loads up her 1966 Bonneville convertible and, with her friends in tow, sets out from Pocatello, Idaho en route to Santa Barbara.

As they detour to spots like Bryce Canyon and Las Vegas, it doesn’t take long for the women to realize Arvilla has something unexpected in store. But what none of them realize is that what began as a simple trip will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises - and of letting go.

kathy's rating:

7.5

Deadly Strangers (1975)

Director: Sidney Hayers
Starring: Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden, Ken Hutchison and Peter Jeffrey

After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.

kathy's rating:

2564

6.9

Death Proof (2007)

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Tracie Thoms, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Omar Doom, Michael Parks and James Parks

Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.

kathy's rating:

103

7.4

6.6

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

Director: John Hough
Starring: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Roddy McDowell and Kenneth Tobey

Larry and Deke are a small time car racing duo who rob a grocery store and plan to use the proceeds to buy an expensive race car in order to win more races and break in to the professional NASCAR circuit. Their escape with the loot does not go as smoothly as planned when Larry's one night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride. One step ahead of an obsessed Sheriff, they manage to evade several police cruisers, a high-performance police interceptor and even a helicopter in their 1969 Dodge Charger R/T. Almost...

kathy's rating:

7.7

7.6

Duel (1971)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Based on a story by Richard Matheson
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Lou Frizzell, Lucille Benson, Eddie Firestone, Jacqueline Scott and Carey Loftin

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the unseen driver of a mysterious tanker truck.

kathy's rating:

4979

7.6

7.8

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Directors: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin and Abigail Breslin

A comedy about a family of six who are all having a mental breakdown at the same time. To ease their mental lows they decide to take a cross country road trip to a “Little Miss Sunshine” contest that their daughter has qualified for.

kathy's rating:

521

7.2

7.5

Midnight Run (1988)

Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashden, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Wendy Phillips and Philip Baker Hall

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI and the Mafia after jumping bail.

kathy's rating:

814

7.2

7.5

A Perfect World (1993)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, Bradley Whitford, Keith Szarabajka and Leo Burmester

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

kathy's rating:

2423

7.5

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Susan Sarandan, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Brad Pitt, Timothy Carhart and Stephen Tobolowsky

Waitress Louise's musician boyfriend Jimmy is always on the road. Thelma's husband Darryl likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day both women decide to break out of their normal life, jump in the car and hit the road.

Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico but soon they are hunted by American police.

kathy's rating:

283

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Director: Michael Cimeno
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach and Gary Busey

John "Thunderbolt" Doherty is an ex-thief who teams up with an enthusiastic, amiable young drifter, Lightfoot, to seek loot that was probably stolen by Thunderbolt's gang.

kathy's rating:

237

7.6

7.2

Two-Lane Blacktop (1972)

Director: Monte Hellman
Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson and Harry Dean Stanton

The Driver and the Mechanic are drag racers pitting their gray '55 Chevy against any and all gearheads in order to make money for gas and food. They and a tag-along Girl meet their match in GTO and they all set off on a cross-country race to Washington D.C., with the winner getting the loser's car.

But it isn't the end that really counts; it is the process of getting there, as the Girl's fickleness forces the Driver to decide what matters more: endless races or her.

kathy's rating:

740

7.1

7.4

Vacation (1983)

[Also known as 'National Lampoon's Vacation']

Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid and Eddie Brecken

Chicago native Clark Griswold has decided to take his wife Ellen and kids: 14 year-old Rusty and 12 year-old Audrey to a Los Angeles theme park called Walley World.

But will their vacation be all it was cracked up to be? Especially as Audrey takes up pot smoking, Rusty reads porno magazines and annoying Cousin Eddie sends spiteful Aunt Edna to join them on their trip.

The Griswolds then get stuck in a ghetto, Aunt Edna dies, Clark drives off the road, hillbillies take all their money and Clark is shot at in a Dodge City bar.

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